Look We Love: Glossy Eyelids at Tom Ford

You'd never know it from his fancypants resume (Parsons, Gucci, YSL, A Single Man, his two-hour fashion retrospective directorial debut), but Tom Ford hails from the great state of Texas. (Am I the only person who thought he was maybe or maybe not British?) That's kind of apropos of nothing. Just thought it was interesting. Anyway, how great is this look from his show? The answer is very. These gorgeous, glossy lids were the work of makeup artist and actual British person Charlotte Tilbury.

"The eyebrow was our main focus," says Tilbury. "We created a shape that's straight and a little boyish."

Tilbury created shadows underneath the brow bone with the darker shade in the Tom Ford Shade & Illuminate palette. Using a brush, she swept the color across the eyelids from the inner corner to the outer corner and ran the same brush along the lower lids. She then used a coffee-colored pencil to draw a thin line along both the top and bottom lash lines. (This color combo is best for fair to medium complexions; Tilbury recommends using pure black for both the shadow and the pencil if you have darker skin.)

Right before models stepped onto the runway, Tilbury used her fingers to dab a clear lip gloss onto the lids and just under the eye for a superglossy look that would catch the light and bounce it back. And make us all ooh and aah.

So beautiful—but the thought of goopy eyelid gloss had us blinking, just to make sure our eyes weren't shellacked shut. In that case, Tilbury recommends swiping on some Vaseline instead. The whole thing should take no more than five minutes.